I am not an American. I am the American.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.